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Finland: The Welfare Game
Martti Kalliala with Jenna Sutela and Tuomas Toivonen
Welcome to Finland, a young land experiencing a rapidly aging consciousness, where newly founded institutions are already outmoded and geographic impediments are a constant crippling agent. The latest addition to international prankster/deep thinker Ingo Niermann’s Solution series, this wryly entertaining book addresses the Nordic country’s numerous predicaments. The three Finnish authors offer solutions to their native country’s quandaries, ranging from the absurd (the implementation of fiction-mongering emissaries to boost tourism) to the earnest and probably half-serious (the repurposing of the country to host nuclear waste). The book elucidates the northern country’s modern history as a nation under construction, proposing that its identity remain a malleable myth.
ISBN: 978-1-934105-69-6
Retail Price: $19.95
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A THOUSAND EYES
Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics
Marit Paasche and Judy Radul
What questions of representation, judgment and justice cross borders between art and the law? Through the contribution of an all-star roster of artists and scholars – including John Baldessari, Harun Farocki and Dan Graham – this anthology explores how the aesthetics of new media technology affect the judicial system in relation to fundamental concepts such as truth and representation. Since the early twentieth century, the justice system has come to rely on a variety of new representational modes and technologies when considering contemporary art. The law is increasingly staged on a screen and the photographs, video documents, audio recordings used as evidence are not entirely distinct from their correlates in contemporary art, cinema and mass media. Essays by Julie A. Cassiday, Costas Douzinas, Piyel Haldar, Martin Jay, Peter Goodrich, Richard Mohr, Judy Radul, Avital Ronell, Eyal Sivan, Cornelia Vismann. Artistic contributions by John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Harun Farocki, Stan Douglas, Aernout Mik, Agency, Judy Radul, Renzo Martens, Ana Torfs, The Atlas Group, René Magritte, Model Court, Rana Hamadeh, Thomas Demand and Les Levine.
14 b/w and 37 color
ISBN: 978-1-934105-66-5
Retail Price: $29.95
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